David wold: Most of these use cases for a block chain ton out, when you look at them, to be very vague. Barrack balmer asked the question, do we want everybody to have a swiss bank in their pocket? And am jacob resmoggs dad, william wrote a book in 19 97 called the sovereign individual,. Do you think that that's att possibility that crypto currencies could undermine the nation state as we know it now? Excellent. We'll take a gentleman. Then there's woman up at the back there. And, umr two, ther three. So thanksa.
Blockchain technology has gone mainstream. It earns huge amounts of column inches and airtime. Stories abound of Bitcoin millionaires and multimillion-dollar ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). New cryptocurrencies are launched every week. People who don’t entirely understand what they’re buying are rushing to purchase Bitcoin for fear of missing out, and recently the UK's Royal Mint announced its first ever blockchain-based non-fungible token, an NFT. Back in 2018, Intelligence Squared gathered crypto specialists to debate whether blockchain technology has a legitimate future or not, including Jamie Bartlett, author and analyst on the politics of the internet, blockchain expert Primavera De Filippi, Vit Jedlička, President of the micronation Liberland, and crypto journalist David Gerard. The host for this discussion was journalist, author and former BBC News Editorial Director, Kamal Ahmed.
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